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How to use the word Compound in a Sentence?

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There's a compound bow and a machete with a red handle. That's what I'm gonna use to kill you.

Andrew Lincoln (Rick Grimes)

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Once kids are in compounds, they’re happy and won’t risk destabilizing that compound.

Lisa Damour

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Anthony Zottola is a loving father and husband, his sentence to death by incarceration will only compound the trauma that the Zottola family has already suffered.

Ilana Haramati

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I see these visits as a raid on our holy site, israel should keep its hands off the mosque and the compound because this is a violation (of the sanctity of the site) … and can lead to events that cannot be contained.

Sheikh Azzam Khatib

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Members are either forced to compound it themselves to make the product or go to an outside third party source who is compounding the product.

Paula Gurz

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I wonder if there’s another compound out in nature that, from the point of view of the beetle, looks like cantharidin, and they’re getting faked out.

Dan Young

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We will do what we call structural elucidation to determine that this is a different version of a fentanyl that’s got a new compound and molecule that’s been added to it.

Scott Oulton

Found on CNN
1 year ago

This is a hazardous chemical compound, it irritates the stomach and can cause burns in the mouth and esophagus. Children would be especially sensitive to (its effects) if it is eaten in large amounts.

Clarence Yeo

Found on CNN
1 year ago

These economic policies all compound on each other. And you add to that an abortion ban, it just compounds this financial stress, this economic insecurity.

Asha Banerjee

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Unprecedented to raid a former president's home — not just the compound, but his home, i doubt that's ever been thought of before in American history. And no sense of burden of why it happened, why they did it. No sense of explanation.

Bill Bennett

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

I want to first apologize to the Mother, Boyfriend and Family of( Breonna) Taylor because I never meant to compound or further remind them of the tragedy that has taken place, and I also apologize to my family, friends, the community my church members because I knew better and I ask them to forgive me.

Turhan Knight

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Heat was not a big focus, i ended up putting it into the city of Miami's climate-ready strategy, because when I did neighborhood-level outreach on our planning process and was really drawing out what people's biggest concerns were related to climate change, extreme heat and the compound risks of extreme heat with hurricane came up a lot.

Jane Gilbert

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We have to remember that when we have an impact of climate change in a city, those can have cascading effects, it can compound other impacts.

Vanesa Castan Broto

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We already have problems serving our women of color through long standing discrimination, racism and access to resources, this is going to compound those already existing problems.

Cynthia Osborne

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Contribute to your 401( k) and push your withholding up to 8 % or 10 % from 6 % or 7 %, your paycheck doesn't go down a lot when you do, but it will add up a lot down the road because of compound interest.

Justin McCurry

Found on CNN
1 year ago

None of the missiles hit the new United States consulate which is still under construction in Erbil, but areas around the compound were hit.

United States

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Chamomile tea has been used in traditional medicine to treat many ailments, including insomnia. Chamomile contains the flavonoid apigenin, a compound that binds to the benzodiazepine receptors in the brain, creating a sedative effect.

Kaleigh McMordie

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

We face a competitor in TikTok that is a lot bigger, so it will take a while to compound and catch up there.

Mark Zuckerberg

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Grape skins contain resveratrol, a powerful polyphenol. Polyphenols are compounds found in plants, which have been shown to benefit the human body. More specifically, resveratrol is part of the stilbenoid family. Stilbenoids are a natural compound produced by certain plants in response to injury. The purpose of stilbenoids is to protect the plant, similarly, resveratrol has been shown to protect the cardiovascular system.

Amy Adams

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

If your favorite brand is not on the shelf, find a substitute, resist hoarding. If you take a little bit more than what you need, it can compound the situation.

Doug Baker

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I simply look out my windows … [ and admire ] the beauty of the Shambala Preserve, there is nothing quite as beautiful as the view from my dining room window of Mona -- a magnificent Bengal tiger -- walking across her compound.

Universal Studios/Getty Images

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

It's an excellent opportunity to teach your teen about the magic of compound interest.

Liz Callin of Milwaukee

Found on CNN
2 years ago

It is very important that this now must go through the usual process of careful examination of the data by the Food and Drug Administration both for effectiveness, but also for safety, because whenever you introduce a new compound, safety is very important.

Anthony Fauci

Found on CNN
2 years ago

All of those costs compound to make it very unreachable for a lot of people.

Zaena Zamora

Found on CNN
2 years ago

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